Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-11
NEBRASKA NOTES

The state owns 22,796 acres of land in
Boone county.
The scheme to divide Holt county
has been revived.
There are 6 1886 Baptists in the state
and 5,652 enrolled in the Sunday
schools.
From ifty to one hundred loads of
pitch pine wood are marketed at Chad
ron daily.
The Otoe County fair association was
organized last week with o capital stock
OF $25, 600.
The county OF Box Butte has been
formally organized and an election called
for March 9Th.
Four Cinnamon have been received in
to membership OF the Methodist Episco.
pal church at Lincoln.
The first session Of the annual meet
ing OF the Fine Stock Breeders assooia-
tion Was held at Seward Tuesday.
The Omaha freight bureau seems to
have been organized more for the inter-
ests OF the railroads than for the benefit
OF Omaha.
Hon. 81. B. Nicodemus, of Douglas
county, has two ponderous pigs of the
Jersy Red breed, whose combined weight
ia 1901 pounds.
High license, which originated in Ne.
braska, is coming the popular method
all over the country for the regulation
OF the liquor traffic.
The abandoned military reservations
OF Forts Hartsuff and MCPHERSON and
Camp Sheridan are to be plated and
opened to settlement.
An appropriation Of $4,000 has been
made by congress to complete the public
building at Nebraska City. This makes
the total cost $4,000.
A Legislative committee Of fourteen is
IN Norfolk to inspect the new asylum
building with q view Of reporting its
needs to the general assembly.
a. F. biomgren, . farmer living neal
Ohappeli. beat his young wife insensi-
BILE, Friday night, set fire to the houss
to burn her alive, and then hanged HIM
self in his barn.
The Atkinson board Of trade ia doing
good work for that place. Already cap
i~telists are beginning to come in and
word has been received that many more
will follow as soon as spring opens.
Orln D. Smith, Q lad Of thirteen, has
strayed away from isihome neal Ogalla-
Ia. He is q blue-eyed boy with brown
hair, aorid complexion. rather tall for
his age and lame in the right hip.
Last week the papers were received
at the Office Of the secretary of state in
cooperating the bank of Overton, looat-
ed at Overton, Dawson county. The
capital stock of this bank is $4,000.
Last Saturday evening T. E. Bsemis
and wife, and their two children, of
Pender, were poisoned by eating canned
raspberries. They are slowly recovering
with the aid Of good medical treatment.
Monday afternoon Leonard Mattix, q
young man residing at Red Cloud, while
riding q colt On q dead run. was thrown
headlong twenty feet, striking ON his
head. BE was picked up in an insensl-
BILE condition and afterwards died.
sheriff Connolly returned to vaIen-
tine Tuesday with James Bohanan, the
noted horse and cattle thief, for whom
there has been . standing reward of
$500 the past year and q half. In the
summer Of 1886 Bohanan stole ton head /
iPf horses and eleven head OF cattle, part
lot them being w. e. Waites
Keys Paha county 10 forty-eight
miles long from east to west, is bounded
on the east by Holt. on the south by
Brown. on the west by Cherry and on
the south by Dakota; and was formed
from q part OF Brown county in the fall
of 1884. The county is settled by q
wide awake, energetic class OF people,
who take q general interest in the com.
mon welfare. Schools are in a flourish.
ing condItion, considering the youth of
the country. The greatest felt want 10
. railroad.
Abraham, James and Martin Landreth,
were arraisnsd before Judge Gaslin in
the district conrt at Bloomington Tues
day James and Abraham pisaeedl